Texas Education Board Adopts New Rules for Textbook Review

Written by Don Byrd
Every year it seems, the Texas Board of Education is embroiled in some dispute over proposed changes to its textbooks. Typically, those seeking changes are not expert in the field, and are attempting to address a perceived slight in the curriculum to their conservative religious viewpoint.

OK Lawmakers Propose Merry Christmas Bill

Written by Don Byrd
State Representatives in Oklahoma are following Texas’ lead in attempting to pass a bill protecting expressions of Christmas in public schools. The bill “calls for more protections for Christmas and how it’s celebrated in schools, such as religion based greetings and nativity scenes.” But as the the ACLU’s Brady Henderson points out, eventually those supposed protections are going to run into a higher power: the US Constitution.